Monday, October 11, 2004

"Potential making an Effort Essence"



This is an example of randomly choose four characters and place them to appear as Chinese idioms. Even though there are fonts offers hollow-style, but rarely in Chinese writing, characters' strokes are hollowed out. By doing so, it symbolizes lack of confidence, unstable, or superficial.

勢 = situation, influence
勉 = strive, encourage
性 = nature, disposition, gender (depends on context)
精 = essence, concentrated

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

FYI. the last two characters combined could mean "sperm" since, 性 is also "sex" or "sexual" and 精 can either be "essence" or "sperm"

7:07 AM  
Blogger tian said...

Even if combining the last two characters to be "sperm", the tattoo as a whole is still gibbrish.

9:01 AM  
Blogger Pi said...

Possibly the reason why they're hollow is is that he's only halfway through getting it done. It's a godawful photo, but it looks slightly raised, and the arm is reddened a bit.
Otherwise, he's a complete retard.

1:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The raising is due to the tattoo having been freshly made. The characters look like outlines ready to be filled in by the artist.

1:53 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why would you take a photo of your tattoo before it's finished? Maybe because it was too painful for him and he's just left it empty.

6:19 AM  

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